Joseph Rosenstock, 90, who conducted at the Metropolitan...

October 19, 1985

NEW YORK — Joseph Rosenstock, 90, who conducted at the Metropolitan Opera and was a general manager of the New York City Opera, died Thursday. Rosenstock, who was born in Poland and studied in Vienna, conducted German opera at the Metropolitan Opera in 1929 but soon returned to Europe. In 1933, however, he was forced to leave Germany because he was Jewish. He conducted the Nippon Philharmonic in Tokyo from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II. He was general manager of the City Opera in New York from 1952 until he resigned in 1955 to return to Japan to conduct. In 1961 he returned to the Metropolitan Opera.